Methven Hornet
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2 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:
So Mr Grealish signs a 100 million pound contract
Nice work if you can get it
My son is a St Johnstone fan but his English team is Man City. As he has just said, signing a £100 million player is nothing in comparison to a battling draw away to Galatasaray
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On 03/08/2021 at 11:39, meast said:
Despite the media and lots of "mainstream" football fans thinking otherwise, the FA Cup starts this weekend, 348 teams contesting the extra preliminary round.
Why not get to your local club and support them?
I'll be watching Emley hopefully beating Congleton Town and earning a trip to City of Liverpool.
I saw a preliminary round match many years ago between Rossendale United and Chorley, notable for the first sending off of a goalkeeper for deliberately handling the ball outside of the penalty area to prevent a goalscoring chance (the rule having just been introduced). The decision led to a pitch invasion, well, one of two guys walked onto the pitch to remonstrate with the ref.
It's a few months until the first round of the Scottish Cup but I hope to watch local Perth side, Jeanfield Swifts, commence their cup journey.
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2 hours ago, Gerrumonside ref said:
Galatasaray vs St Johnstone live on BBC Scotland from 7pm in the Europa League qualifiers.
Gala got really hammered off PSV Eindhoven in the previous round of the Champions League qualifying to drop into this.
Be a huge scalp for the Saints who won both cups in Scotland last year and are 6/1 underdogs tonight.
Honestly, I'm convinced I fell into a deep slumber around about January and that I'm dreaming all this. Winning the League Cup, the Scottish Cup and now holding a side like Galatasaray to a draw away from home. It's certainly a great time to be a Saints fan!
Someone just joked on social media that you can measure the relative stature of the two clubs by their sponsors: Turkish Airlines v Binn Skips, a local waste disposal company.
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On the NRL Facebook page
The Olympics, but it's just #NRL players who are selected
Who would you choose for these sports?
100m Sprint
Basketball
Boxing
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Golf
Gymnastics
High Jump ˦
Marathon
Rowing
Shot Put
Surfing
Swimming
Table Tennis
Tennis
Trampoline
Weightlifting
Wrestling
https://www.facebook.com/6878248073/posts/10158864584223074/
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1 hour ago, Dave T said:
This simply is not true no matter how many times you say it.
People support teams in all sports for all sorts of reasons.
I'm from Warrington in Cheshire, but I support Man City and Lancashire Cricket, despite caring little for the city and county.
My wife is from Glasgow and supports Warrington. My mate is from Nottingham and supports Arsenal. I know lads from Wales who support Warrington, Widnes, St Helens and Salford. I know Southerners who support Wigan. I have convinced loads of my Scottish mates to follow Wire.
People support teams for all sorts of reasons - parents, favourite players, friends, kits, one-off games, colours etc.
When I was a postie in deepest, darkest and very rural Perthshire, I delivered a parcel to a remote cottage. The woman who answered the door was wearing a piece of Warrington Wolves merchandise (a jacket if memory serves...)
I asked about her connection, if any, with the club and town. None, she'd picked it up in a charity shop.
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11 hours ago, HawkMan said:
Terrible start to the season for Celtic, out of CL and a first day league defeat, first time that's happened since 1997. How sad !
And their trophy cabinet currently has two fewer cups than St Johnstone's.
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On 15/07/2021 at 09:28, Bleep1673 said:
Arbroath F.C. is the closest ground to the sea in the world according to wiki. One road between the ground & the North Sea, it must be bitter during the storms in Winter.
Dundee, and Dundee United are the closest teams that don't groundshare.
Looking at the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps, I'd say Caledonian Stadium in Inverness gives it a run for its money. That is if you class the Moray Firth as the sea.
As for the closest teams/stadiums, certainly in Scottish senior football (albeit just south of the border), Lowland League Berwick Rangers play at Shielfield Park. Tweedbank Rangers, of the East of Scotland League, play next door at Old Shielfield. The two grounds share a boundary wall.
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On 26/06/2019 at 00:33, 17 stone giant said:
Just tell people that the badge fell apart and came unstuck. A bit like the Scotland defence.
Seeing as the photo was taken prior to the first game, and the defence lasted until the final 16 minutes, I'll go with the defence.
Next time, though, I'm going dressed as the guy I saw leaving the ground. He was in his late seventies/early eighties, dressed in a kilt, shirt, tie, jacket and a suitable bunnet - very smart - and was immediately surrounded by lots of very pretty, young French women wanting their picture taken with him.
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11 hours ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:
A true Scot!
[Whisper it] I'm half-English.
It's just that I've always felt strange about wearing sports kit where I haven't earned the right. If they sold a supporters shirt then I'd go for that.
And I did by my wife's shirt.
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11 hours ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:
Sadly not, I'm the cheapskate on the front row who wouldn't fork out £47 for an official Scotland WC shirt, preferring a plain blue Adidas top at £16. I joked at the time that my wife had spent £30 for a badge. The laugh was on me when this image was spread across social media.
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Just back from France where we had one hell of a time, experienced the whole range of emotions associated with being a football supporter, before, perhaps predictably, being sent home "Tae think again".
And it was all going reasonably well until the last 16 minutes of the group stages...
Highlights:-
Being at a festival of sport that highlighted and celebrated female excellence.
Quirky accommodation in Nice, Rennes and Paris/Parc de St Cloud.
The banter and the friendly rivalry and camaraderie between the Scotland and England supporters at the match and on the transit buses.
Five Scotland goals, especially that goal by Methven's finest in the Japan game.
Being photographed and used in SFA marketing/propaganda.
Being mentioned in a BBC interview
Lowlights/incidents/other:-
Being bit by aggressive mozzies in Nice and Paris.
VAR
Paris public transport officials.
A near six hour delay of the outbound flight (positive: €500 in compensation).
Best bits:-
That goal.
The honour of supporting such an incredible group of women.
The absolute best: being presented with the match shirt from the England game by a world cup footballer.
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11 hours ago, Bleep1673 said:
I wonder what qualifications you need to play U-21's football for the likes of Gibraltar, San Marino, Faroes & Andorra? Own a pair of your own football boots, and be of that nationality?
Oh, and be free on the day of the match, it doesn't matter whether you have played before.
I don't know about Gibraltar, but for the other three their better players will be playing in the Italian, Scandinavian and French/Spanish footballing systems I would think.
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Just now, gingerjon said:
Scotland have got better. England are, as you can tell from their results, also improving, certainly against the strong teams they used to fall short against.
Anything other than an England win would be a huge surprise but ... well ... sport's all about dreaming, eh?
And having your dreams completely crushed, time after time. But, yes, England do look extremely strong.
The good news is that the main player we're going to see, Lana Cleland, someone we've known almost since the day she was born, came back from quite a bad injury for Fiorentina against Juventus at the weekend.
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8 minutes ago, gingerjon said:
A very strong team, but Scotland should have improved (hah! Where have I heard that before?). So, Nice on 9th June for the rematch.
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But I'm pinning all my hopes on the senior team - the women. Games in Nice, Rennes and Paris in the World Cup, and we've got tickets all the way to the final (if needed
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On 3/24/2019 at 11:26 PM, Niels said:
If none automatially qualify, then the play off group will be Scotland,Serbia,Norway,Finland.
You are top seeds so would have a home semi final against Finland or Norway which is winnable.
Then a potential 2 leg final against Serbia.
You have a fair chance do you think?
We tend to blow qualification very early and then come good later on, so we could be on good form by that time.
But, no, I wouldn't be confident.
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On 3/21/2019 at 7:49 PM, Niels said:
They can still qualify via this route if they don't reach the top 2 in their qualifying group.
No. No, we really can't.
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On the strength of yesterday's 10 mile run yesterday I've been persuaded to enter the 10 mile race in Strathclyde Park next Sunday. I'm really not ready.
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Did a parkrun sandwich this morning at Perth. 8k before the parkrun, the 5k itself then 3.1k to make it up to 16.1k/10 miles. My time suffered after a promising improvement three weeks ago, but it was the fastest 10 miles I've done for some decades.
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On 3/14/2019 at 1:19 PM, Bleep1673 said:
Hastings Half Marathon Sunday 24th March. I hope the weather is better than last year for them. We were in tail end of "The beast from the east" last year. It was freezing.
Good luck.
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5 hours ago, gingerjon said:
I AM OUTRAGED ON BEHALF OF THE FIVE PEOPLE IN FORT WILLIAM WHO FORGOT THE SHINTY WAS ON.
Aye, you wouldn't find a shinty game being abandoned because of gale force conditions.
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For those who are interested in these things, Fort William were on their way to a first win of the season after going 1-0 up against Wick Academy this afternoon. Then the game was abandoned owing to rain and (very) strong winds. It was possibly a gust who scored the goal.
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Tomorrow it is back to our home parkrun at the North Inch in Perth especially for Christmas (mainly because my wife doesn't want to travel far on Christmas morning)
https://www.relive.cc/view/g16460896870
ps above video from last year includes warm-up.
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39 minutes ago, JonM said:
Presumably you know about the possibility of doing parkrun on Christmas Day and/or doing one or two parkruns on New Years Day?
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/special-events/
Quick count says I've done 39 different parkruns. Should hit 40 this weekend as we're in Scotland on Saturday morning.
Yes, we had planned to do our local one at Perth on Christmas Day but Camperdown Park at 11 is a possibility.
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He's picked the right club!